Weed.
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Gotta stick with the classics.
Jazz cabbage or the Devil’s lettuce
Devil's lettuce, Mary Jane and "marahuana" (in the Hank Hill voice) are probably my favorites that immediately come to mind
sticky icky in hank hill voice is pretty fun
I try to avoid terms that demonize or leads to alluding to war on drugs.
So the only correct term, is cannabis.
I don’t call my kids or my adhd meds meth, speed, amphetamines, etc. so I refuse to acknowledge the same for this medicine.
I respect that. What about "traditional" names like ganja?
Wacky tobacky
I absolutely abhor tobacco way too much to use that.
Also the first time I actually heard it used was that country song, so I hate it even more on top of that.
Although I do respect that outside that context it is kinda funny. But not my choice.
The Sticky Icky
jk that stuff ~~does not exist anymore~~ is rare now. Just this dessicated prepackaged nonsense.
When we were youths, I read the Beatles had a code phrase, something like let's have a laugh(?). Then, a friend and I were laughing a little too much when we saw Joe Walsh's record titled Got Any Gum? That became our code phrase.
that stuff does not exist anymore
Lies! You just need to grow it yourself or make friends with a grower. I live in a legal state and have two great dispensaries in my town, but I still frequent a few local growers more often since it's cheaper and better!
I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage. It is true, I have visited old friends up in the Bay Area not too long ago, and the real stuff can still be acquired but it is no longer common or easy to acquire. The idea of local growers is really great. It should be a farmer's market commodity. That would be brilliant. But, no, some time back, legal dispensaries in California were forced to package everything. Prior to that, when they were initially launched, they'd weigh out the fresh stuff in front of you and put it in a container that didn't make you want to wring their necks. The packaging alone is an atrocity against the environment.
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I used to call it kale for a while
That's an insult to weed man.
Sounds like you don’t have an adventurous palate 😁
I was juicing kale for a while.. It tasted like bitter stagnant mud.
I wouldn’t juice that shit. I love it in salads and soups. The texture makes it.
Weed, herb, or pot. In order of frequency.
Occasionally the more fun names like devils lettuce and wacky tobacky haha
In french, the most common name is probably "beu" which is a contraction of "beuher" which is verlan (a type of slang where you reverse the word) for "herbe".
This was distorted in a movie to "beuze" , which was then given the verlan treatment again (this happens often) to "zeb", hence my personal favorite "zebuline". Mind you, that's not a common name that's a personal one I use often.
Not sure of its origin, but it's been called Bubatz in Germany for a couple years now, so I sometimes, mostly jokingly, say Bubatz. My SO and I usually say Bubert because couples speak or Weedle like the Pokemon because 'weed'
We had Mama Cahuna for a while when I was little, has a fun ring to it imo.
Favorite word is a better question but in common speech I'll generally just say weed.
Herb or flower
Ganj
Gigglebush
I like dope because of the ambiguity.
Mary Juana
Kush is my most frequent, but jazz cabbage is probably my favorite
I mostly use cannabis, especially if I'm taking about cbd, cbn, cbg. Often weed if i mean thc.
when my wife or I asked each other if we want to go out for a smoke, we call it a "poof"
I dated somebody whose family used that as a synonym for farting. So thank you for taking it outside!
Pingu or "take a kayak."
Flower
Dank.
CBD.
Living in a prohibition state it helps make it sound legal.
Electric lettuce
Scott Green
Jive Parsley & Cabbage
ott
I call it grass, sometimes dope, lol! Showing my age, too 🙃!
Pakalolo. I never actually call it that though because I'm not in Hawaii, and I doubt anyone outside of the state knows it.
Weed or cabbage.
Probably jazz cabbage or the Devil's lettuce.
Boof
Dank
I usually call it "pot," but then multiple people said I sound like an old person, so now I don't know what I'm supposed to say. I guess I'll start calling it "dope."
Yeah “pot” is the best term
— an old person
Boon.